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February 26, 2025
Stephenson from Southampton to LMU

Andrew Stephenson, currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton, has accepted a professorship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

February 26, 2025
Philosophical Canon Expansion Gets Big Boost in Minnesota

Philosophers at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to further support the work…

February 26, 2025
Philosophers Awarded Large Grants from Italian Science Fund

The Italian Science Fund (FIS) of Italy’s Ministry of University and Research has announced the winners of its latest round of multi-million euro grants, and…

February 26, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Course Offerings and Majors

This is the second installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. The topic is how the number and types of philosophy courses…

February 25, 2025
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes…

February 25, 2025
When Philosophers “Compress a Philosophical Idea into a Picture”

“Philosophical cartoons are treated as ephemera but they can make a great philosopher more compelling to their contemporaries. It takes skill to compress a…

February 24, 2025
The Financial Squeeze on Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s plan to place severe limitations on what universities receive in indirect costs from grants from the National Institute of Health (though…

February 24, 2025
John Sallis (1938-2025)

John Sallis, recently retired professor of philosophy at Boston College and very well-known for his work in phenomenology, has died.

February 24, 2025
Austin Wins New Public History of Philosophy Prize

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has established a new, biannual prize for a book that brings the history of philosophy to a broader public…

February 24, 2025
David Keyt (1930-2025)

David Keyt, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, died last month.

February 24, 2025
Tom Beauchamp III (1939-2025)

Tom L. Beauchamp III, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University and one of the most influential philosophers of bioethics, has died.

February 22, 2025
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February 21, 2025
Why Do Journal Articles Linger in “Online First”?

Some philosophy journals have a lot of articles in “online first” status. They’ve been accepted, copyedited, and typeset, but not yet assigned an issue.…

February 21, 2025
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Local Student Recruitment

Some readers have noticed the alarming frequency with which posts in the category of “Cuts and Threats to Philosophy Programs” appear here. Given the…

February 20, 2025
Museum Exhibit on Margaret Cavendish Opens

Margaret Cavendish: Trailblazer is a new exhibition at Hollytrees Museum in Colchester, UK exploring the fascinating life and writings of the 17th century philosopher, scientist, and…

February 20, 2025
Mind Chunks

February 19, 2025
Franklin & Seifert Win 2024 Popper Prize

Alexander Franklin (KCL) and Vanessa Seifert (Bristol) are the winners of the 2024 Popper Prize.

February 19, 2025
Baghramian to Create Center for Ethics in Public Affairs in Armenia

Maria Baghramian, currently professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, will be moving to the American University of Armenia for a five year period…

February 19, 2025
Jeffrey J. Jordan (1959-2025)

Jeffrey J. Jordan, professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware, has died.

February 18, 2025

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“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did he say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales

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Brad on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Incidentally, the sociologist of science Robert K. Merton takes up related issues discussed in the comments in his various papers on priority disputes. Merton argues that multiple discoveries…
Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Profs* (autoincorrect, ugh)
Nick Laskowski on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I was surprised to see that you were surprised by my characterization. Recall that I was addressing, especially, Rosen and Fine's claim that "heterodox" work in philosophy of…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Out of curiosity I quickly looked at the events listed. Some of them feature speakers who, if they engaged with GC philosophy at all, are very unlikely to…
Meme on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
That’s very helpful, thanks. I notice that you say, in all of these conferences and articles and the like, that the sex-based views are “engaged with.” Does this…
Alex Byrne on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I was surprised to see this list of books characterized as “engag[ing] with sex-based views in the boring scholarly ways of which we’re all familiar.” Taking them in…
Hey Nonny Mouse on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
I'm sure that of the philosophers whose politics I know, all are firmly on the left. When I say "conservatives", I mean people with a conservative ideology (which…
Michel on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yeah… I find it kind of annoying when philosophy of literature is taught like a literature class, not least because literature proofs do a better job of it.…
Ben on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Are you sure? It may depend on what you mean by "conservative." If you mean "adherent of free market policies and a generally small state" or "person who…
Reichenbach on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Would love to read Fine’s take on poptimism.
Ben on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Yes, philosophers sometimes reinvent wheels from other disciplines. But I actually think philosophers tend to do a much better job engaging with work from other disciplines than academics…
A thought? on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Mhh if only there was a really useful tool to help non-native speakers deal with language barriers and every instance of it wasn't uncritically treated as the spawn…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Society for Exact Philosophy 2027 Annual Meeting. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 26-28 2027. Submissions due February 21 2027. https://meta.phil.ufl.edu/host/sep/meeting.html. The Society for Exact Philosophy invites submissions…
Nathan Kellen on Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information 2027. Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). June 21-25 2027. Course Proposals due December 18 2026. [email protected] courses are aimed…
Will Conner on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I want to preface this by saying it’s sometimes tough to know what counts as reinventing the wheel, and I would not endorse any general claim about wheel…

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